There’s never any shortage of drama at the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch — and that’s seemingly the case offscreen as neatly.
While Kevin Costner’s long term with Yellowstone has lengthy been up within the air, his costars Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser and Luke Grimes at the moment are asking for extra money to appear at the display’s upcoming spinoff, according to a Sunday, February 4, report from business newsletter Puck.
According to the hole, Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan hadn’t initially deliberate to incorporate the 3 actors in the new spinoff, however he changed his mind after listening to the advice that their inclusion could serve as some degree of entry for viewers. (Reilly, Hauser and Grimes have played Beth Dutton, Rip Wheeler and Kayce Dutton, respectively since season 1.)
The actors, however, have reportedly asked for major salary increases to reprise their roles after Yellowstone’s fifth and final season wraps up later this year. According to Puck, Reilly, 46, initially requested for $1.Five million in line with episode for the spinoff, whilst Hauser, 48, requested $1.25 million (up from the $700,000 in keeping with episode he these days makes). The outlet additionally reported that Reilly and Hauser want to be first at the production’s name sheet, above rumored big name Matthew McConaughey.
Further complicating issues is the fact that the actors were shrunk for a 6th season of Yellowstone, which is no longer happening. Puck reviews that Paramount must still pay them for that season even supposing it used to be scrapped within the wake of Costner’s exit from the flagship series.
The future of Yellowstone has been in turmoil since early 2023 when reviews surfaced that Costner, 69, wanted out of the display amid rumors of a feud with Sheridan, 53. Sheridan later clarified that Costner wanted to hold up his cowboy hat so he may just paintings on his upcoming two-part movie, Horizon: An American Saga. “My opinion of Kevin as an actor hasn’t altered,” Sheridan informed THR of the alleged drama. “His advent of John Dutton is symbolic and tough … and I’ve never had an issue with Kevin that he and I couldn’t work out at the telephone,” Sheridan told The Hollywood Reporter in June 2023.
The first a part of Yellowstone’s fifth season premiered in late 2022, with the second section scheduled to observe in summer 2023. After the twin SAG-AFTRA and WGA moves, Paramount Network confirmed that the second one part of the season will now premiere in November of this yr. The flagship sequence will conclude with the ones episodes.
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While enthusiasts are nonetheless hoping that Costner will return as John Dutton to wrap up his story line in Yellowstone’s ultimate installment, the Oscar winner said final yr in court docket paperwork associated with his divorce from Christine Baumgartner that he “is not involved in any long term episodes” of the show.
When showed Yellowstone’s end last 12 months, Paramount Network introduced that a new spinoff, tentatively titled 2024, will select up after the events of the flagship series. That’s the spinoff that McConaughey, 54, is attached to, however Puck reported on Sunday that he hasn’t but signed on the dotted line.
Another spinoff, tentatively titled 1944, will recount the lives of an earlier Dutton technology, as 1883 and 1923 in the past did.
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